Are there still Tasmanian tigers.....on New Guinea ?

[SwampDonkey]

Personally I think they are still out there. Whether in Tasmania, the mainland or New Guinea I am not qualified to say. Reports that I have read and seen seem to indicate New Guinea and the Cape York peninsula are the most "likely" of the non-Tasmanian locations.

 

[Chlidonias]

I just saw this story with what sounds credible reports of Thylacines in New Guinea and remembered this old thread so thought it was the appropriate place to post it.
There is even the report of a villager having raised a Thylacine joey, which unfortunately was killed by dogs.

I just watched through that video. He has a curious attitude of "I know it exists" but keeps swapping where he believes it exists so it is literally just a wish and not on evidence. He thought Tasmania and didn't find any on his one attempt so now doesn't think it is in Tasmania, and then same for mainland Australia, so now he "knows" it must exist in New Guinea.

Because he is just sitting there talking it is difficult to know how much of what he is saying is "accurate" and how much is mis-speaking, but I haven't heard of Nick Mooney seeing living thylacines before, especially two at once - if Nick actually is saying that then it must have either been a very recent sighting or he has suddenly decided to reveal some old event which would be curious. (It is also weird that Forrest apparently now doesn't think thylacines survive in Tasmania [because he didn't find them], even though he was there with Nick Mooney who, according to this, had a conclusive sighting in Tasmania on some previous occasion).

The story from Cape York of four thylacines playing with the guy's dog is just nonsense.

The New Guinea bit is really interesting, but my credibility broke when the scientist studying singing dogs, who he enlisted to survey for thylacine sightings, found a jaw bone of what was supposed to be a thylacine and took one photo of it - didn't take the jawbone itself, didn't take a tooth, didn't take more than one photo. For a scientist this is simply unbelievable. Then the caption on the screen reads "the actual picture is being safeguarded by a variety of trusted experts at this time". And then he says he needs five million dollars to mount an expedition to go to this undisclosed place and set up camera traps.

 

[Chlidonias]

Personally I think they are still out there. Whether in Tasmania, the mainland or New Guinea I am not qualified to say. Reports that I have read and seen seem to indicate New Guinea and the Cape York peninsula are the most "likely" of the non-Tasmanian locations.

Why do think "they are still out there" if you can't even say which of those three very different locations are where they still exist?

 

[JVM]

The New Guinea bit is really interesting, but my credibility broke when the scientist studying singing dogs, who he enlisted to survey for thylacine sightings, found a jaw bone of what was supposed to be a thylacine and took one photo of it - didn't take the jawbone itself, didn't take a tooth, didn't take more than one photo. For a scientist this is simply unbelievable. Then the caption on the screen reads "the actual picture is being safeguarded by a variety of trusted experts at this time". And then he says he needs five million dollars to mount an expedition to go to this undisclosed place and set up camera traps.

Those are some great points, Chili, but... hold on?

And then he says he needs five million dollars to mount an expedition to go to this undisclosed place and set up camera traps.

Bolded for emphasis. That's what this is. It's grift.

 

[Pertinax]

Because he is just sitting there talking it is difficult to know how much of what he is saying is "accurate" and how much is mis-speaking, but I haven't heard of Nick Mooney seeing living thylacines before, especially two at once - if Nick actually is saying that then it must have either been a very recent sighting or he has suddenly decided to reveal some old event which would be curious. (It is also weird that Forrest apparently now doesn't think thylacines survive in Tasmania [because he didn't find them], even though he was there with Nick Mooney who, according to this, had a conclusive sighting in Tasmania on some previous occasion).

Apart from the implausability of some of his claims( 'sadly' the jawbone wasn't collected....), this guy just does not do his research accurately at all. The quote about Nick Mooney has since been found entirely wrong, it wasn't Nick Mooney at all. Gallante's 'evidence' and quotes are riddled with such innaccuracies I'm afraid. Very misleading to anyone who believes it- serious Thylacine researchers don't.